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Griot Institute
for Africana Studies

We die. That may be the meaning of life.
But we do language.
That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

What We Do at the Griot

The Bucknell Griot Institute for Africana Studies is a collaborative enterprise devoted primarily to the interdisciplinary exploration of the aesthetic, artistic, scholarly, and cultural products and intellectual currents of historical and contemporary Africana communities.

The Griot Institute embraces narrative as a thematic and theoretical framework for projects and programming like:

• Reading Groups
• Lectures
• Performances
• Panel Discussions
• Conversation Topics
• Trips
• Service Work

that explore the aesthetic, artistic, scholarly, and cultural products and intellectual currents of historical and contemporary Africana communities.

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